80% of your employees work in production. What fraction of the employees work in production?
80% = 80/100 = 8/10 = 4/5
To determine the fraction of employees that work in production, you need to express the given percentage as a fraction.
The percentage 80% can be written as 80/100, since percent means "per hundred".
To simplify the fraction, you can divide both the numerator and denominator by their greatest common divisor (GCD). In this case, the GCD of 80 and 100 is 20. Divide 80 by 20 to get 4, and divide 100 by 20 to get 5.
Therefore, the fraction of employees that work in production is 4/5.